Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-11-24


tried to break the strike of their employees
on the 14th by opening their places as free
shops, but not striker returned to work.
In a fit Of jealousy the other day 7. A.
billiard, an old man living near Gainesville,
Ga, struck his aged wife, the mother Of
eleven children, over the head with a gun,
inf1icting fatal wounds A boy ten years
of age was the object Of his jealousy.
CHARLES CAvANAN. a porter, died OF
hydrophobia in New York on the 18th.
The Central Bank Of Canada, Toronto,
Ont, closed its doors on the 18th. Liabli-
ties between 500, $50 and Sl50.OO0.
DIR. II. T. HELMBoLD, the once famous
patent medicine king, has been sent to a
New York hospital for intoxication. He
was found dead drunk on the street.
FIVE negro laborers were killed by a
dynamite blast in cut on a new railroad
in Central Tennessee recently.
j. FINLEY HOKE, the Peoria, Ill. bank
cashier, has been taken to Joliet peniten-
tiary to serve out his five years sentence
for forgery, his case having been confirmed
by the Illinois Supreme Court.
CHARLES CowATCH, the alleged dynamlter
arrested at Greenwich, Eng, recently,
claims to be miner. His dynamite cart
ridges are of the kind used by miners.
HOPKINS, the reporter who sent the bogus
Internal machine to Chief Justice Waite,
has been released.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
had its annual banquet at Delmonico's on
the 18th. The principal speeches were
made by Secretary Lamar, Chauncey De-
pew and Joseph Chamberlain.
The work of the Board Of Pension APP
peals is practically up to date, for the first
time in the history of the board. The extra
force has been relieved from further duty.
AT st. Joseph, La, recently Charles
Favor, butcher, got into an alteration
with u. Blum and fired two shots at him.
He then rode away, called his sister from
school and shot at her. He was pursued
by posse, when he fired into the crowd
and then put "A bullet into his own breast,
infiicting q probably fatal wound. None Of
the other shots took effect.
HENRY LEE MosIER, aged twenty-one. was
hanged at Wichita, Kan, on the 18th for
the murder of Hugh B. Lawler, an elderly
man living near ST. Anthony. The murder
took place October %, 1856, in the Indian
Territory, just south of the Harper County
line. The murder was most brutal, Lawlcr
being shot from behind. President Cleve
land, being appealed to, refused to alter the
ing of Mosier was the first legal execution
in Kansas for twenty-one years.
THE Chinese steamship Wah Yum has
been destroyed in the Canton river with q
loss of 400 lives.
The New York Cable Company is bank
rupt, owing to losses in cable railroad build
ing.
SIX men were blown to pieces by an OK
,1oc;n, in, dvpornita M clyipr houco naor
Ishpeming, Mich, on the 10Th. The works
belonged to the Hancock Chemical Com
pany and contained over a ton Of dynamite.
FOURTEEN miners were killed by an ex-
plOsion in q coal mine near Dortmund, Ger
many, recently.
A BAND of cane carriers and feeders on
plantation near Thibodeaux, La, was fired
into by strikers the other night and five of
them wounded.
I'VE forests around Helena, Ark, were
reported aflame on the 10th. A large num-
Der of farmers have been burned out, but
no lives were lost
IT IS reported in London that the Gov
eminent proposes to swear in 20, 600 special
constaples to check further riots.
THE Irish Court of Queens Bench has
quashed the verdict of the coroner's jury
at Mltchelstown in the case Of the police
shooting September 9, taking the ground
that the inquest was illegal, the jury ir-
regularly impaneled and the coroner's con-
duct illegal and partial.
r. H. c. Hill a stock broker of Philadel-
phia, has failed.
ISAAC SYCLE. wholesale lace and velvet
dealer, New York, has made an assignment,
Liabilities, Sis, 600; assets, 100000.
The Ziegel brewery at Buffalo, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
sl5O0OO; insurance, 100000.
THERE was general stampede and killing
at negro party the other night three miles
east of Fort Worth, Tex. Houston Bass
and Marshall Washington were killed out
right and several others wounded. Two
arrests were made.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has authorized the
treasury accounting officers to audit the
accounts of the Castle Garden Commission
ers, treating as an offset the amounts re-
ccived by the Commissioners from the sale
Of privileges. The amounts to be offset
exceed the amount of the four months &C
counts which have been held up.
The creditors of Woodman, True & Co.,
Of Portland, Me-. have declined to accept
IS cents on the dollar and have resolved to
throw the firm into bankruptcy.
THE Anarchist excitement is said to have
doomed the "American" party.